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First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier, 1870
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Hazard Stevens
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …
On the Trail of Don Quixote, Being a Record of Rambles in the Ancient Province …
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August F. Jaccaci
On the Trail of Don Quixote is an engaging 1890’s “record of rambles in the Ancient Province of La Mancha” by two artist friends, French aut…
By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860
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Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
The White Heart of Mojave
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Edna Brush Perkins
"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two …
The Land of Little Rain
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Mary Hunter Austin
The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into t…
My Mother and I
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Elizabeth Gertrude Stern
Elizabeth Stern was two and a half years old, when her family emigrated from Poland to Pittsburgh. My Mother and I is the story of Stern's A…
The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances
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John Charles Van Dyke
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "…
Geronimo’s Story of His Life
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Geronimo
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.…
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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Leander Stillwell
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …
Living on Half a Dime a Day
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Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth
How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…
Gallipoli Diary
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John Graham Gillam
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
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John Muir
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- s…
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore …
A Gold Hunter's Experience
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Chalkley J. Hambleton
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1
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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
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Frances M. A. Roe
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…
Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840
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William Cooper Howells
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howel…
Five Years of My Life 1894-1899
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Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…
Our Journey to Sinai
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Agnes Von Blomberg Bensly
Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Ju…
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